The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-14

and Lime Glass Manufacturers. There was
no discussion Of prices or wages.
THE Governor and Council at Boston,
Mass, recently completed the sale Of the
Hoosac tunnel, with its accompanying forty
four miles of railroad, to the Fitchburg
Railroad Company. The State is to receive
g, OO0, lin ffty-year bonds, paying interest
at three per cent. for five years, three and
half per cent. for the next five, and four per
| cent. thereafter and 100000 in common
| stock.
A CHAMBER in the Peerless slope portion
of the Henry Clay colliery, owned by the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, was discovered to be burning on the
9Th. The fire was increasing rapidly and
defied all efforts to get it under control.
Frequent explosions of gas were occurring.
Four men had been severely burned. The
loss can not now be estimated.
HAZzAN II. WHEEL, assignee Of Martin
Kalbfelsch & Sons, of New York, filed the
schedules of the firm short time ago in
the Court of Common Pleas. They show
liabilities of s67S, JIG, with contingent liza
bilities of S97, 4S3, or total of 600 with
nominal assets amounting to S87S.S95.
ANOTHER strike was recently threatened
on the lines of the Brooklyn City and the
Broadway street railway lines. owing to
the position taken by Presidents Lewis and
Beers in the matter of time tables.
THE wages question at the Edgar Thomp-
son steel works at Pittsburgh, Pa, has
been finally settled by the arbitration COM
mittee, and work will be resumed in all de-
partments. The new scale advances
wages on a general average ten per cent.
These works employ over 5000 men.
A RECENT dispatch said that an epidemic
of smallpox was feared in Brooklyn and
that vigorous course of action was being
applied.
A PECULIAR case was begun in the Su-
perior Court at Boston on the 9TH, being the
suit Of Maurice S. Fitzgerald. a Catholic
clergyman, against Archbishop Williams,
to recover damages for being, as he claims,
wrOngfully deposed from his position. The
Archbishop, upon charges of immortality.
ordered him into seclusiOn and meditation.
He declined to obey and was suspended.
WILLIAM EARL, proprietor of the largest
cider mills in New Jersey, committed sui
eide recently at his place near Newark, by
hanging himself.
THE Democrats of the Ninth Wisconsin
district recently nominated DIR. Samuel
johnson for the long and Joseph Bardeen
for the short term in Congress, made va
cant by Mr.. Prices death.
IT was reported short time ago that the
police of New York were going to dig a
trench six feet deep, twelve feet wide and
fifty feet long in search Of a woman who
was supposed to have been murdered by
her husband.
THE funeral services of Horatio Potter,
late Bishop of New York, were held at old
Trinity Church on the morning of the 9TH.
Rev. DR.. Dix led the services.
THE WEST.
RECENTLY four armed men visited the
stations of Ell Rito and San Jose, thirty-five
miles west of Albuquerque, n. NJ, on the
Atlantic Il Pacific road and robbed the
agent of S4O
GREAT excitement was caused recently at
Albuquerque, n. NJ, by the announcement
that Charles Ross the murderer of Marshal
Mcclure and Officer Henry, had broken Jail
and escaped.
THE grand jury at st. Louis on the 4th
returned true bills against Wittrock, Weav-
er and Haight, the express robbers, charg-
ing them with larceny from railroad car.
The defendants pleaded guilty and Wit
trock and Haight were sentenced to seven
years and Weaver to five years in the peni-
Tertiary.
W. W. WATKINS. a boy of seventeen, en-
ployed by Jacob Peake, printer of Cincin-
natl, o., as collector. was recently charged
by his employer with having embezzled
money. The boy acknowledged it and asked
that his father be sent for to make it good.
While waiting for the father to come. Mr..
Peake having left the Office, young Watkins
swallowed prussic acid and in less than two
minutes was dead.
On the 4th fast train on the Baltimore
& Ohio railway, which left New York for
Chicago, collided with an eastern-bound
freight eleven miles east of Tiffin, o. Fire
broke out in the wreck and the screams Of
the wounded and dying were terrible. AT
least fifteen persons were killed or burned
to death.
A SPECIAL from Chicago on the 4th said
that frightful accident occurred near Pc
waukee that evening. The east bound pas
senger train, which arrives at six o'clock,
when passing the mammoth ice house
which borders Pewaukee lake at this point,
ran into sleigh of icemen, and instantly
killed three and fatally injured several
others.
PROMPTLY at twelve o'clock on the 4th
the twentieth session of the Nebraska Leg
islature was inaugurated. In the Senate
George d. MickeljOhn, Republican, of Full
lerton, was elected President without oppo-
sition. In the House n. V. Harlan, of
York, was elected Speaker by vote of Il
to q over Matt Miller, the Democratic
candidate.
The Nebraska Legislature had a very
quiet day on the 5th. The organization was
completed and subordinate positions filed.
Both houses Of the Missouri Legislature
met at Jefferson City on the 5th. The
House elected DR.. E. A. Donelan, of Buch-
anan. Democrat, temporary Speaker, and
Mr.. Bentley, of St Louis, was unanimously
elected temporary Chief Clerk. After read
ing the roll of members-elect and swearing
them in the House adjourned. In the Senate
the only business done was swearing in the
members.
A COMMITTEE of Western railway mana
gers was in session at Chicago on the 5th
with a view to taking up the question of
what restrictions was to be put upon the
issue Of passes to merchants, manufac-
turers and shippers along their several
lines.
THE north end of the new addition to
Pillsbury elevator at Minneapolis, Mimi,
which has recently been added to the ele-
vator, fell in. Over $1,000 bushels of No. l
hard wheat was distributed over the Mani
toba tracks, mixed with splinters and snow.
The roof was still hanging. Several men
who were working about the elevator es-
capped without injury.
THE Democratic caucus at Jefferson City
on the 9th re-nominated Senator Cockreu
to be his own successor
GOVERNOR DAWES, of Nebraska. deliv
cred his biennial message to the Legisla-
ture in joint session on the afternoon of the
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